Is there safety in piety?

Bangladeshis ponder whether being wellversed in religion is protection from a terrorist attack.

Tahmima Anam TAHMIMA ANAM is the author, most recently, of the novel ‘‘The Bones of Grace.’’OPINION

It has been about two months since the terrorist attack at the Holey Artisan Bakery that led to the deaths of 20 people in my hometown, Dhaka, Bangladesh. By all accounts, the city — at least the part of the city where the attack took place, and where...